<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><div>Dear NCL Community,</div><div>I have a question regarding "specx_anal" function.</div><div>First, is the return value equal to the power spectral density (PSD)? if not what is its relationship with amplitude? can we compute the amplitudes from the return values?</div><div>I am trying to find periodic signals in the monthly time series of the latitude of the maximum precipitation (attached figure"Amplitude"). I polt this figure using MATLAB based on the latitudinal range (amplitude). Since I want to add the confidence curves (specx_ci, figure spec_anal), I want to understand the relationship between "specx_anal" function return value and the amplitude.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div></div><br></div></div></body></html>